Litost
LEE-tost
n.The anguish of suddenly seeing your own wretchedness, and the urge to lash out.
CzechEstablished linguistic term
The Swimming Lesson
They went swimming in the river because Petra suggested it, and that is the last innocent sentence in this account.
Tomáš could swim. He wants that established. He could swim perfectly adequately, in the way of a man who learned at nine at a municipal pool and has done it perhaps twice a year since.